freemotion
Food Guru
Everyone who owns horses knows all about "poop soup!" 
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Dace
Revolution in Progress
Farmer Denise....tell me about your lavendar salt 
I am on the look out for some nice homemade gifts for the holidays!
I am on the look out for some nice homemade gifts for the holidays!
FarmerDenise
Out to pasture
I bet. I'll have to ask my friend about that one!!!
On the other hand, my latest foster kittens love to play and sleep in the potty box
On the other hand, my latest foster kittens love to play and sleep in the potty box
Dace
Revolution in Progress
So lately my savings has come from not driving anywhere! DH and I share a car which he drives to work everyday and usually I use DD's car which her G'ma gave her. But she teaches swim and her busy work season is underway...so Mon- Thurs I have no car, at least not till the afternoon. Still, I try to resist going anywhere...I think I am driving my other 3 kids crazy. My goal in life
FarmerDenise
Out to pasture
Dace, I got the idea from this forum I think, it might have been on the BYC forum. Basically you mix sea salt and lavender buds. I can't remember the proportions, I think it was equal parts. I'll have to do a search again....
I should have copied it down for myself
I should have copied it down for myself
big brown horse
Hoof In Mouth
FD I posted the thread on TEG about lavendar salt and other salt.
FarmerDenise
Out to pasture
Thanks BBH
Dace
Revolution in Progress
Do you add lavender Eo or are the buds enough to add fragrace? Anyone know?
I have a good friend who LOVES lavender !
I have a good friend who LOVES lavender !
big brown horse
Hoof In Mouth
Hi Dace,
There are a few ways to do this. The one I prefer is that you add lavendar buds and flowers to heavily salted water (sea salt) and whirl in the food processor. It turns light purple. Pour onto a cookie sheet and let it dry in the oven (w/ light on) then when it is back to being salt again, break up the salt small enough to put into a salt or an old pepper grinder. The salt is actually light purple.
Another way is to just add the buds and flowers to course sea salt and put in a mason jar and shake it daily until the flowers and buds dry up. They can stay in the salt. The first version is the hardest but the tastiest.
I think you would add about 1 T of lavendar buds and flowers per 1/2 cup of salt. Play with it, salt is cheap and it all turns out great!
Serve sprinkled over smoked salmon on cream chease and a toasted sourdough slice.
I've made Lime Salt the same way except with lime zest. I just added it to dry salt and shook it every day until it smelled like limes. Serve in your favorite ice cold Mexican beer...or use it for tequilla shots. (I'm just sayin!)
There are a few ways to do this. The one I prefer is that you add lavendar buds and flowers to heavily salted water (sea salt) and whirl in the food processor. It turns light purple. Pour onto a cookie sheet and let it dry in the oven (w/ light on) then when it is back to being salt again, break up the salt small enough to put into a salt or an old pepper grinder. The salt is actually light purple.
Another way is to just add the buds and flowers to course sea salt and put in a mason jar and shake it daily until the flowers and buds dry up. They can stay in the salt. The first version is the hardest but the tastiest.
I think you would add about 1 T of lavendar buds and flowers per 1/2 cup of salt. Play with it, salt is cheap and it all turns out great!
Serve sprinkled over smoked salmon on cream chease and a toasted sourdough slice.
I've made Lime Salt the same way except with lime zest. I just added it to dry salt and shook it every day until it smelled like limes. Serve in your favorite ice cold Mexican beer...or use it for tequilla shots.
(I'm just sayin!)
freemotion
Food Guru
I've made lovely bath salts and scrubs from bulk sea salt (the cheap white kind, not the expensive kind that I buy to put in our food) and essential oils. Just put a few drops into the salt and stir it up, put it in a tight glass jar quickly (the eo's are very volitile and the fragrance will diminish in minutes with exposure to the air, so minimize "open bottle" time.)Dace said:
Blends of 2-4 oils are the best, the effect is synergistic. Lavender oil balances most other oils nicely, so simple mixes of lavender and one other oil works nicely. I love lavender/tangerine, which is safe in small amounts for pregnant woman and children.
Lavender and lemongrass is nice, too, and the lemongrass is pretty stable, more so than the citrus oils, which diminish in scent within a few short months. Try to buy from a place that has a lot of turnover.
I keep lavender and tea tree mixed together in a little bottle in my medicine cabinet.
The buds probably look pretty in the salt, but I don't like to clean them from my bathtub drain, personally. Curious to see what others do.
eta: OH! For use on FOOD! Duh!
